Colossendeis Jarzinsky 1870

• Main Authors: Scarabino, Fabrizio, Lucena, Rudá Amorim, Munilla, Tomás, Soler-Membrives, Anna, Ortega, Leonardo, Schwindt, Evangelina, López, Guzmán, María, José, Christoffersen, Martin Lidsey
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Pycnogonida; Pantopoda; Colossendeidae; Colossendeis; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5924316; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/6A4A87C4FFD8FFCFD3F6FF5AFEC0FE45

Genus Colossendeis Jarzinsky, 1870 Remarks : Child (1995a) commented: “The Antarctic species of this genus need a thorough revision but I leave this difficult task to a future student of the Pycnogonida.” He also reported Colossendeis megalonyx ssp. from the shelf and slope off Buenos Aires Province (Argentina) on the basis of material collected by the RV Islas Orcadas (37°24´S– 54°39´7W, 182–327 m). Child recorded great variation in size, and in morphometric relationships between proboscis, femur, and tibia. These considerations, as well as those made below for C. geoffroyi , highlight the need for a revision of Antarctic and Subantarctic species of Colossendeis (Cano & López-González 2007; Krabbe et al . 2010). Published as part of Scarabino, Fabrizio, Lucena, Rudá Amorim, Munilla, Tomás, Soler-Membrives, Anna, Ortega, Leonardo, Schwindt, Evangelina, López, Guzmán, María, José & Christoffersen, Martin Lidsey, 2019, Pycnogonida (Arthropoda) from Uruguayan waters (Southwest Atlantic): annotated checklist and biogeographic considerations, pp. 185-200 in Zootaxa 4550 (2) on page 189, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4550.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2625249